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The Director's Cut Delivers A Whisky A Month

Filed under: Spirits

Wine lovers have their pick of bottle of the month clubs but for whisky lovers, there is The Director's Cut for members of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society in England. The Scotch Malt Whisky Society is a membership group which bottles only single casks from a range of 125 malt whisky distilleries. Each month, Society's Directors, Paul Miles, Kai Ivalo and Anne Griffiths, get together to personally hand-pick a bottle from a selection of the very best single cask, single malt whisky. The Society bottles around 20 different single casks each month so this alleviates the decision process and can expose subscribers to whiskies they have never even heard of or thought of trying. Members tell the Society the amount they wish to spend per bottle, either £50 or £75 and after 12 months members will receive an extra bottle as a thank you.

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The Coaster, New Zealand's Single Malt Whisky

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Spirits

Once upon a time well-regarded wine was mainly made in Europe, now it spans the globe. Will the same thing be true of whisky? The Malt Whisky Year Book recently gave accolades to The Coaster, a whisky that comes from TImaru, New Zealand. The Southern Distilling Company is the world's most southern distillery and they produce Hokonui Moonshine as well as single malt and blended whiskies. For the Coaster, a driftwood /seaweed fuel is used to scorch the malted barley and char the oak. It has a golden amber color and a smoky, caramel flavor.

[via TCM Net]

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